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CANADIAN VIEWS ON BETTING. "Australia has been worked up to fever heat recently as regards betting and at one time" there -was danger that the. Commonwealth was going to extremes," says the Toronto Sunday World. "Better counsel, however, ultimately prevailed, with the result that a leaf has been taken out, of the good Canadian law that encourages honesty and straightforwardness and betting is to be allowed on incorporated courses. Stringent laws, however, have been enacted against all other forms of racing betting and the huge sweeps that . have for well-night half, a century been a feature in the land oC the cornstalks are to be rigidly suppressed. Handbook betting will also be put down with a strong and determined hand. This is as it should be everywhere and the evil resulting from race course speculation would be practically nil and would be entirely offset by the accruing decency. "Far more good would be done by the abolition of stock speculating- than by the total suppression of betting. Racing not only brings money to the country and- encourages the horse industry, but It induces people, to spend their leisure in the opei air, broadens mens minds, brings a healthy glow to the cheeks and affords rare enjoyment for thousands upon thousands of people, not one-tenth of whom are any the worse for their experience. But the law must and should be rigidly adhered to. "What Australia would be without its racing It is impossible, to say. That much dlsorderliness would result is not to be doubted. We jare hardly so generally enamored of the sport in this part of the world as the natives are there; but still by their attendance many of the best people in the country mark their approval. What is good enough for His Majesty the King, for His Grace the Duka of Devonshire, for the Right Honorable the Earl of Rosebery, for the Right Honorable the Earl of Derby, for the Right Honorable the Earl of Aberdeen, who lends his patronage and presence to the sport in Ireland, for the Right Honorable the Eail of Durham, and for countless other noblemen and gentlemen of Britain is surely not too bad for the average Canadian."
